Re: [flalug] ftp question

From: Smitty (a.smitty@verizon.net)
Date: Thu Mar 04 2004 - 18:17:40 EST


Thanks, Eben. That worked fine. Gosh, it's even easier than using the gui
client kbear!
Smitty

On Thursday 04 March 2004 17:26, Eben King wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Smitty wrote:

> Here's one way:
> $ ftp -n
> ftp> open machine
> Connected to machine (i.p.add.ress).
> 220 blah blah blah
> Remote system type is UNIX.
> Using binary mode to transfer files. <- if that's diffrent or absent,
> enter 'bin' after you're logged in
> if you're transfefrring binary
> files. HTML isn't binary.
> ftp> user yourusername
> 331 User hactar okay, need password.
> Password: (yourpassword)
> 230 blah blah blah
> ftp> cd remotedir
> ftp> lcd localdir
> ftp> put filename
> ftp> bye
> 221 blah blah blah
> $
>
> Instead of
>
> $ ftp -n
> ftp> open machine
>
> you can do
>
> $ ftp -n machine
>
> It may prompt for a username/password if you haven't defined the default
> in ~/.netrc . I always do
>
> bin (binary mode)
> has (show #s to indicate file-transfer progress)
> ver (turn off verbose mode)
>
> if I'm unsure.



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